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Paul Weyrich, conservative activist who founded the Free Congress Foundation and co-founded the Moral Majority, announces that religious conservatives should give up their political battles and "drop out of this culture." Weyrich's announcement is apparently motivated by the failure of Republicans to impeach president Bill Clinton.

According to Paul Weyrich:

"I believe that we probably have lost the culture war. That doesn't mean the war is not going to continue, and that it isn't going to be fought on other fronts. But in terms of society in general, we have lost. This is why, even when we win in politics, our victories fail to translate into the kind of policies we believe are important.

Therefore, what seems to me a legitimate strategy for us to follow is to look at ways to separate ourselves from the institutions that have been captured by the ideology of Political Correctness, or by other enemies of our traditional culture. I would point out to you that the word "holy" means "set apart", and that it is not against our tradition to be, in fact, "set apart"....

What I mean by separation is, for example, what the homeschoolers have done. Faced with public school systems that no longer educate but instead "condition" students with the attitudes demanded by Political Correctness, they have seceded. They have separated themselves from public schools and have created new institutions, new schools, in their homes. ...Others are setting up private courts, where they can hope to find justice instead of ideology and greed. ...

I think that we have to look at a whole series of possibilities for bypassing the institutions that are controlled by the enemy. ...What steps can we take to make sure that we and our children are not infected? We need some sort of quarantine."